Galápagos Regained

A Novel

Chloe Bathurst is an unemployed Victorian actress who finds work on Charles Darwin's estate, nurturing the strange birds, exotic lizards, and giant tortoises he brought back from his trip around the world. When Chloe gets wind of the Great God Contest, sponsored by the Percy Bysshe Shelley Society, she decides that Mr. Darwin's materialist theory of speciation might just turn the trick. Before she knows it, she is bound for the Galapagos archipelago, where she intends to collect the live specimens through which she might demonstrate evolutionary theory to the contest judges.